The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 36 33 53
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +20
Permanent jobs citing DNS 27 27 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 4.813% 4.500% 0.774%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.42% 34.62% 3.540%
Number of salaries quoted 26 18 4
Average salary £40,000 £35,750 £30,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.88% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,050 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.06%
All Communications & Networking
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
139 78 113
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 24.78% 13.00% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 126 66 100
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £26,000 £23,350
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,150 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
North East

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing DNS across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Tyne and Wear DNS Jobs Demand Trend

DNS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DNS across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Newcastle upon Tyne +9 26 £40,000 +40.35%
South Shields - 1 £18,000 -
DNS
North East

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing DNS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited DNS.

1 44 (95.65%) DHCP
2 37 (80.43%) Firewall
3 35 (76.09%) Linux
4 33 (71.74%) Cisco
5 30 (65.22%) MySQL
5 30 (65.22%) HP
6 29 (63.04%) Red Hat
6 29 (63.04%) Apache
6 29 (63.04%) CentOS
7 28 (60.87%) LDAP
8 23 (50.00%) Wireless
8 23 (50.00%) Internet
9 22 (47.83%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (47.83%) VLAN
10 21 (45.65%) Telecoms
10 21 (45.65%) Citrix
11 20 (43.48%) XenServer
12 18 (39.13%) CCNA
12 18 (39.13%) SAN
12 18 (39.13%) OSPF
13 17 (36.96%) BGP
14 16 (34.78%) Degree
14 16 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (32.61%) Windows
16 14 (30.43%) TCP/IP
17 13 (28.26%) RHCE
17 13 (28.26%) VMware
18 12 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
18 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
18 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2003

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing DNS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited DNS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (8.696%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 1 (2.174%) RSS
2 1 (2.174%) HTML
2 1 (2.174%) .NET
2 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.174%) CSS
2 1 (2.174%) Ajax
2 1 (2.174%) CSS3
2 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (2.174%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 29 (63.04%) Apache
2 12 (26.09%) MS Exchange
3 8 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2003
3 8 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (8.696%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (8.696%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.174%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (21.74%) MS Excel
2 6 (13.04%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 44 (95.65%) DHCP
2 37 (80.43%) Firewall
3 28 (60.87%) LDAP
4 23 (50.00%) Wireless
4 23 (50.00%) Internet
5 22 (47.83%) VLAN
6 18 (39.13%) SAN
6 18 (39.13%) OSPF
7 17 (36.96%) BGP
8 14 (30.43%) TCP/IP
9 11 (23.91%) VPN
10 6 (13.04%) NAS
10 6 (13.04%) iSCSI
11 5 (10.87%) LAN
12 4 (8.696%) SMTP
13 3 (6.522%) VoIP
13 3 (6.522%) WAN
13 3 (6.522%) IPsec
13 3 (6.522%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (6.522%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (65.22%) MySQL
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
General
1 21 (45.65%) Telecoms
2 4 (8.696%) French Language
2 4 (8.696%) German Language
2 4 (8.696%) Italian Language
3 1 (2.174%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Administrator
2 25 (54.35%) Linux Administrator
3 17 (36.96%) Systems Administrator
4 15 (32.61%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 12 (26.09%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 6 (13.04%) Network Support
6 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
7 4 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.696%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 3 (6.522%) Analyst
9 2 (4.348%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (4.348%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
9 2 (4.348%) Technical Support Engineer
9 2 (4.348%) Help Desk Support
9 2 (4.348%) Network Analyst
9 2 (4.348%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (4.348%) Support Analyst
9 2 (4.348%) Technical Support
9 2 (4.348%) Network Support Analyst
10 1 (2.174%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) Replication
1 4 (8.696%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 35 (76.09%) Linux
2 29 (63.04%) CentOS
3 15 (32.61%) Windows
4 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (15.22%) UNIX
6 2 (4.348%) Windows 8
6 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.348%) Windows 7
6 2 (4.348%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.174%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (13.04%) Validation
2 6 (13.04%) Identity Management
3 5 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (8.696%) Change Control
4 4 (8.696%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (4.348%) Network Management
5 2 (4.348%) Time Management
5 2 (4.348%) ITIL
6 1 (2.174%) Project Management
6 1 (2.174%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.174%) MVC
6 1 (2.174%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.696%) C
2 1 (2.174%) C#
2 1 (2.174%) PHP
2 1 (2.174%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (39.13%) CCNA
3 16 (34.78%) Degree
4 13 (28.26%) RHCE
5 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (10.87%) MCSE
5 5 (10.87%) MCSA
6 4 (8.696%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (8.696%) CCNP
7 1 (2.174%) MCP
7 1 (2.174%) MCDST
7 1 (2.174%) MCITP
7 1 (2.174%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (43.48%) XenServer
2 12 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (21.74%) VMware ESX
4 7 (15.22%) Active Directory
4 7 (15.22%) Hyper-V
5 6 (13.04%) NFS
6 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (8.696%) Forefront TMG
7 4 (8.696%) ISA Server
8 1 (2.174%) XenApp
8 1 (2.174%) vSphere
8 1 (2.174%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Nagios
2 4 (8.696%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 33 (71.74%) Cisco
2 30 (65.22%) HP
3 29 (63.04%) Red Hat
4 21 (45.65%) Citrix
5 13 (28.26%) VMware
6 6 (13.04%) Symantec
7 4 (8.696%) Microsoft
7 4 (8.696%) Sophos
8 2 (4.348%) Remedy
9 1 (2.174%) Apple
9 1 (2.174%) Juniper
9 1 (2.174%) F5
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
2nd Line IT Support Technician - Newcastle Upon Tyne - Windows, Server, Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP - £15,000 - £20,000. A Windows, Server, Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS,...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £15000 - £20000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013